"To please Godâ€¦ to be a real ingredient in the divine happinessâ€¦ to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.”

Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press
“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”

Source : Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.
“There is a thing where I get scared watching other people, and really realize, My God, their happy lives are going to stop. Sometimes you feel that people have 19 jokers in their back pocket and, because of the way they're living, you're like, Do you know that this is not going to happen over and over again forever?”
“Every athlete has doubts. Elite runners in particular are insecure people. You need someone to affirm that what you are doing is right.”
“Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.”
“The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.”

Source : "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.
“It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.”

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